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Informant




Informant

A person, such as a co-worker or friend of the accused, used in the investigation of a fraud who may know something about the crime but is otherwise not involved.

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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.

Accused
One who is charged with a crime or misdemeanor.

Investigation
A structured gathering of Documentary Evidence and Testimony to solve a reported Fraud.

Fraud
Contracts, torts. Any trick or artifice employed by one person to induce another to fall into an error, or to detain him in it, so that he may make an agreement contrary to his interest. The fraud may consist either, first, in the misrepresentation, or, secondly, in the concealment of a material fact. Fraud, force and vexation, are odious in law.

Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.



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Informality
The waut of those forms required by law. Informality is a good ground for a plea in abatement.

Information
1) An accusation or complaint made in writing to a court of competent jurisdiction, charging some person with a specific violation of some public law. 2) In the French law, the term information is used to signify the act or instrument which contains the depositions of witnesses against the accused.

Information in the nature of a writ of quo warranto
Remedies. The name of a proceeding against any one who usurps a franchise or office.

Informatus non sum
Pleading, practice. I am not informed; a formal answer made in court, or put upon record by an attorney when he has nothing to say in defence of his client.

Informer
A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute.

Infortiatum
Civil law. The second part of the Digest or Pandects of Justinian, is called infortiatum. This part, which commences with the third title of the twenty-fourth book, and ends with the thirty-eighth book, was thus called because it was the middle part, which, it was said, was supported and fortified by the two others.



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Infirm
Weak, feeble.

Inflated inventory
An indication of Embezzlement or possible theft of inventory.

Influence
Authority, credit, ascendance.

Influence pedaling
The offer by a government official to use their office to influence actions for a private party in return for something of value.

Informality
The waut of those forms required by law. Informality is a good ground for a plea in abatement.

Informant

Information
1) An accusation or complaint made in writing to a court of competent jurisdiction, charging some person with a specific violation of some public law. 2) In the French law, the term information is used to signify the act or instrument which contains the depositions of witnesses against the accused.

Information in the nature of a writ of quo warranto
Remedies. The name of a proceeding against any one who usurps a franchise or office.

Informatus non sum
Pleading, practice. I am not informed; a formal answer made in court, or put upon record by an attorney when he has nothing to say in defence of his client.

Informer
A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute.

Infortiatum
Civil law. The second part of the Digest or Pandects of Justinian, is called infortiatum. This part, which commences with the third title of the twenty-fourth book, and ends with the thirty-eighth book, was thus called because it was the middle part, which, it was said, was supported and fortified by the two others.

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